I can indeed confirm that, after quite a bit of tweaking and following Rik Theys' solution, I have been able to get the touchpad on my Dell Inspiron 15R N5110 to be recognized as a touchpad:
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=7326 N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0 S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input16 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=mouse2 event16 B: PROP=8 B: EV=b B: KEY=e420 0 70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 B: ABS=2608000 1000003 I can now set the sensitivity of the touchpad as well as enable two- finger scrolling. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/606238 Title: synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/606238/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
